The EOS 600 series came out in the late 80's. 650 in 1987 followed quickly by the 620 and lastly by the 630. The 630 had the fastest auto focus of the three although slacking off a bit to a shutter speed of a still overkill 2000th of a second. They were at the beginning of cameras with intelligence ...

In the US Army of half a century ago enlisted men of the lower ranks got to be Specialists eventually if they didn't get any article 15's or piss anybody above them off. At the same time, there was a real distinction between NCO's and privates that was a real class distinction. However, also at the ...

Saw this story. Do gooder returns a purple heart medal found in a bank safety deposit box to the family of deceased recipient. Seems guy died of old age long after being awarded the medal and his executor, a niece, didn't know about the safety deposit box. A touching story. Only.... what else was in...

so yeah. But .....why?

I took a harbor cruise today. The United States is a few weeks away from being towed out to it's final resting place. I figured taking a photo of the corpse of the fastest ocean liner that would ever be was worth the effort of taking a few photos of her. The stacks were all gone....too tall to be re...

I got to thinking about my Spanish Mauser and about the caliber marking. The 7.62 mark is there on the receiver on the side opposite the bolt handle

Good to see a new member. As to the question. I'd imagine you know that the Spanish Mauser was originally configured for the 7x57. Then when the Nato round became the European caliber of choice after WWII many Spanish Mausers were then reconfigured to fire the Nato 7x62. The thought crosses my mind ...

Once upon a time gun laws in the US were pretty liberal. You could buy and sell without any government oversite. However, people were just as afraid of guns changing hands a hundred years ago as today....at least some of them. Now, trickery was apparently used by gun authorities back then when it su...

The X-700 was the flagship of the Minolta MPS manual focus camera group. It was very popular and won camera of the year in Europe in 1981. It worked in manual, aperture priority, and if you twist the MD lens to the green 22 and turned the selector knob to the Green P, you had a program mode that ena...